Oxford Handbook of Genetics

• The essential guide to genetics for GPs, GP registrars, and junior doctors
• Provides advice on why, when, and how to refer to geneticists for specific conditions
• Includes helpful hints and diagrams on constructing family trees
• Features advice on surveillance of patients and/or their family, affected by a genetic disease
• Includes an extensive glossary and resources section

Readership: Primary care practitioners, junior doctors in training for careers in primary care, obstetrics and gynaecology, and paediatrics, allied services (social services, education), and health visitors.

Guy Bradley-Smith, General Practitioner, Exeter, and Honorary Clinical Lecturer, Peninsula Medical School, UK, Sally Hope, GP Principal, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, Honorary Research Fellow in Women's Health, Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford, UK, Helen V. Firth, Consultant Clinical Geneticist, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK, and Jane A. Hurst, Consultant in Clinical Genetics, Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust, UK

Guy Bradley-Smith has been a GP in a large, 29000 patient, practice in Exeter since 1985. Re-introduced to genetics at a conference in 2004, and supported by meetings with the GPSIs in genetics at the NGEDC, he became increasingly involved in the primary care genetic agenda. For Exeter PCT, he was the lead for Learning Disability from 2001 to 2008, and is currently part of the Learning Disability Clinical Leaders Network. He is an Honorary Clinical Lecturer at the Peninsular College of Medicine and Dentistry.

Sally Hope has been a GP Principal since 1986 at the Woodstock Surgery, North Oxfordshire. She was a founding member of the Primary Care Group in Gynaecology in 1990. She was on the national council of the British Menopause Society 1997-2000. She is the RCGP representative on the NICE osteoporosis guidelines group, and on the Human Medicines Commission Women's Health advisory board. She is an Honorary Research Fellow in Women's Health, Dept Primary Health Care, University of Oxford.

Jane Hurst has been a Consultant in Clinical Genetics in Oxford since 1992. She specialises in prenatal and neonatal aspects of genetics and also works in the Oxford Craniofacial Unit assessing children and counselling families with congenital craniofacial malformations. Additionally she has developed expertise in the counselling of British Pakistani families from understanding more about their culture, beliefs, and expectations.

1: The impact of genetic disease on families
2: Patterns of inheritance
3: Genetic investigations
4: Genetic services and the primary care interface
5: Common genetic conditions
6: Common consultations in primary care
7: Cancer
8: Chromosomes
9: Fertility, pregnancy, and the newborn
10: The future
11: Resources